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French National Newspaper Reports How Chinese Leaders’ Dislike of Seeing Falun Gong Caused Paris Traffic Jam
2004-02-05
On January 30th, 2004, Major National newspaper Le Figaro published an article entitled "Monstrous Traffic Jam during Hu Jintao's visit". The article revealed how Chinese Officials were so afraid to see brochures on persecution in China that they demanded that several major roads in Paris be closed during their official visit. During the few days of the President's visit, the majority of Parisioners felt that it was overly-extreme of the French authorities to enforce extra and extreme security measures to meet the demands of the Chinese president. -
French National Radio Attends Falun Gong Press Conference
2004-02-05On January 29th 2004, France’s national Radio station RTL attended a Falun Gong Press Conference. After listening and asking questions to Falun Gong spokespersons for one hour, the journalist interviewed Mrs. Chen Ying who was persecuted and brainwashed in China for refusing to renounce her practice of Falun Gong. -
EFGIC: Chinese Deputy Consul General Found Guilty in Canadian Court for Libel against Falun Gong Practitioner
2004-02-05"Today, Canadian courts have recognized that calling Falun Gong practitioners 'evil cult' members is illegal. I believe this ruling is the correct classification for the hate propaganda that Chinese officials have spread around the world about Falun Gong as an extension of -- and a veil to divert attention away from -- the genocide that is going on in China right now." -
National French Newspaper Le Monde Denounces the Chinese Regime's Pressuring of Authorities in France
2004-02-04In Paris, a sharp contrast was seen between the Chinese President speech at the National Assembly in Paris, which was boycotted by half of the deputies in protest, and the peaceful appeal of Falun Gong in front of the same building. With a touch of humour, the Le Monde journalist hinted at how absurd it is to treat such peaceful people as if they were a threat to security in order to please a regime that does not hesitate to exert economic pressure to hide its crimes. -
Article from Silicon.com: Microsoft, Sun 'contribute to Chinese human-rights abuses'
2004-02-04'Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and Cisco are among major IT vendors slammed by Amnesty International for contributing to human-rights abuses by selling technology to the Chinese government that is used to censor the internet...The report cites cases of students, political dissidents, Falun Gong followers, writers, lawyers and teachers who have been jailed or tortured after being accused of offences ranging from signing online petitions to publishing 'rumors' about the SARS virus.' -
France: Media Coverage of Jiang's Persecution Exported from China to Paris
2004-02-03On January 22nd 2004, a journalist working for Yahoo France conducted a long interview with two French Falun Gong practitioners about the pressure exerted by the Chinese regime on French authorities, forcing them to exclude Falun Gong from the Chinese New Year Parade in Paris. The journalist took the opportunity to say that Falun Gong is a peaceful method, and that the main person responsible for the persecution in China is former leader Jiang Zemin, who is now being sued for genocide in several European countries. -
French National Paper Liberation Reports on Lawsuit Filed Against Chinese Minister
2004-02-02On January the 28th 2004, the French national newspaper Libération reported on Falun Gong practitioners' legal actions against Chinese Culture Minister Sun Jiazheng. The lawsuit filed by practitioners in France accuses him of the crime of Torture in his involvement in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. Mr. Sun was accompanying President Hu Jintao on a state visit to France when the case was filed. -
Article Published in Three Belgian Newspapers: “Thanks to Falun Gong I am a different person!”
2004-02-01
'“When your boss wrongfully scolds you, it is already quite a skill to remain calm. It’s even stronger if you really are calm inside. And that is something I can achieve since I started practising Falun Gong," says Matthias Slaats, who is a fervent adherent of this Chinese teaching.' -
AFP: Taiwanese Falun Gong [Practitioners] Protest Police Harassment in France
2004-02-01'The group [...] demanded Taiwan's foreign ministry relay a strong protest to Paris over what it called an "unreasonable and unlawful" act infringing on the basic rights and freedom of its members. "They were checked by French police on the streets just because they were wearing yellow scarves. The police could not give them any proper reasons, except (for) saying 'yellow scarves are illegal in France today'," Chang Chin-Hwa, a spokeswoman for Taiwan Falun Dafa, or Falun Gong, told AFP.' -
Radio France Internationale: Falun Gong Practitioners Held a Series of Activities
2004-01-31'The New Year Parade on Champs Elysees Avenue on January 24th is a public cultural activity demonstrating Chinese culture for all the Chinese people in France. When the French Falun Dafa Association applied, the application was interfered with by the Chinese Embassy. This unreasonable action by the Chinese Embassy aroused a lot of attention in society. Many social groups and people expressed their opposition to the Chinese Embassy using the New Year celebration activities to export China’s persecution of different beliefs to France.' -
Norwegian Newspaper Stavanger Aftenblad: The Chinese have Committed Genocide Against Falun Gong
2004-01-31The persecution of Falun Gong has been going on for several years now. The Chinese authorities fear that it will develop and become a strong grass root movement, which could be hard to control. Practitioners say that they have no political agenda, and that they just want to help people become better human beings with this method. There are several examples where western governments have kowtowed to the Chinese leaders, and prohibited demonstrations, says Giertsen. This has happened both in Iceland, Denmark and Germany. -
EFGIC: French Police Arrest American, UK, Danish, French Citizens for Wearing Yellow During Chinese State Visit
2004-01-30LONDON (EFGIC) Citizens of the U.S., U.K., Denmark and France were among at least 11 arrested in Paris this past Saturday for wearing clothing with the words Falun Gong on it. These arrests appear to have been an attempt to keep the presence of Falun Gong invisible from the many Chinese groups that took part in a Chinese New Years Day parade. -
The Epoch Times: Today, the Color Yellow is Illegal in France
2004-01-30'This weekend local Paris police, under intense pressure from the Chinese government, initiated a new trend in Parisian fashion with an unusual directive- “Yellow is illegal.” Or to be more specific, yellow worn by Falun Gong practitioners is illegal. The thinly veiled attempt by Chinese officials to target Falun Gong practitioners from around the world, in town to mark the Chinese New Year, was swiftly enforced by Paris police. A group of practitioners on their way to a New Year’s celebration were detained for wearing yellow clothing on the city streets.' -
EFGIC: The Colour Yellow is Illegal in France!
2004-01-29'During the Chinese New Year celebrations over the last weekend in France, 20 Chinese and Western practitioners were arrested, simply because they wore yellow scarves or yellow sweaters with the words of "Falun Gong" or "Zhen Shan Ren" (meaning Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance). The French police told them that they were arrested because “Yellow was illegal in France”. Even people not wearing yellow, but just wearing blue scarves with the words “Falun Dafa” were arrested.' -
BBC: Falun Gong Sues China Minister
2004-01-29'Four members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement have filed a lawsuit in Paris against visiting Chinese Culture Minister Sun Jiazheng. The members said Mr Sun was responsible for "crimes of torture" against the group, which is banned in China.'
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